Verified and lab component wasn't counted?

[CdnHopeful]

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Hi, I just got verified and as a Canadian student my university lists my courses as 0.5 and 1.0 credits (regardless if it has a lab component or not).

So when I was verified each of my credit hours became 3.0 hrs and 6.0 hrs (which does not reflect lab components, which would make my hours 4.0 and 8.0).

Did any Canadians experience this problem in conversion? What did you do? Take it up with AMCAS (with academic change request) or explain to each school?


Since I'm not so familiar with the American system, does 6.0 ever represent a full year course with lab? Or will it ALWAYS be 8.0 hours?

Thanks!

 

[Chemdude]

A typical American university course+lab= 4 credits. 6 credits would be a huge course; probably an accelerated class...I've never seen an 8 credit course...

 

[CdnHopeful]

Sorry, a 6.0 or 8.0 would represent a full year course in Canada I believe (I guess they don't have that in the states)

 

[Chemdude]

Sorry, a 6.0 or 8.0 would represent a full year course in Canada I believe (I guess they don't have that in the states)

ohh...so you would count bio 1+bio 2 as a 1 credit course? That would def transfer over to 8 credits. I don't think it matters though...you should be fine.

 

[CdnHopeful]

ohh...so you would count bio 1+bio 2 as a 1 credit course? That would def transfer over to 8 credits. I don't think it matters though...you should be fine.

Yep, exactly they'd be counted as a single course. But this means I get 6.0 credits, which is not reflective of having a laboratory component right?

I saw that Dartmouth's website specifically asks for 8 semester hours.

 

[Ignition]

Yep, exactly they'd be counted as a single course. But this means I get 6.0 credits, which is not reflective of having a laboratory component right?

I saw that Dartmouth's website specifically asks for 8 semester hours.

That's interesting, I was thinking almost the exact same thing when I was working on Dartmouth's secondary today. I am on trimesters, and was confused about their 8 semester credit hour requirement (I completed Orgo I + II and associated labs for a total of 12 trimester credit hours...translating into 6.6 semester hours).

It seemed unlikely that they would have required me to take Orgo III to fulfill a basic med school prereq (Orgo III is basically a once-every-two-years course that focuses on graduate-level synthesis).

So I simply called their office, explained what I had taken, and they said they were aware of my undergrad's curriculum and I would be fine, even if the numbers didn't add up on the secondary.

I would encourage you to do the same and simply check with any schools that you are particularly worried about.

Hope that helps

 

[Doodl3s]

for me, Bio I and Bio II were 4 credits each with the lab included in those four credits...

physics was 5 each with lab

orgo was 4 for the lecture and 2 for the lab for a total of 6 credits... but its technically two separate classes... (although lab was like 5 f'kin hours long!)

 

[SirGecko]

I went to a US school that does the credits instead of the credit hours as well. (labs are part of the class and don't get counted extra) They translated 1 credit = four credit hours. They didn't make a distinction between lab courses and non lab courses. (you can tell though because we list courses with labs with an "L" after the number)